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Ridgewood NJ, February is Black History Month, and when considering the current state of race relations in the country, most Americans aren’t too optimistic.
Continue reading Only 15% of Americans Think Race Relations Are Getting Better
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Ridgewood NJ, as the nation nears the annual Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, only a quarter of Americans have a positive view of race relations in the country.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 25% of American Adults believe race relations in the nation today are good or excellent, including just eight percent (8%) who rate them as excellent. That’s barely changed from April 2021. Thirty-five percent (35%) now give U.S. race relations a poor rating, down from 44% last spring. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Confidence in race relations in America continues to fall, with hopes for the future at their lowest level yet.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 50% of American Adults now think race relations in this country are getting worse, up from 44% a year ago and 30% as recently as January 2014. Only 20% believe race relations are getting better, a new low that compares to 38% five years ago. Twenty-six percent (26%) say race relations are staying about the same. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Only 18% rate race relations in America today as good or excellent, unchanged from last year at this time but down from 34% two years ago. Thirty-three percent (33%) now consider race relations poor, up from 15% in 2011 and 29% last January.
Interestingly, unlike most questions related to race, there isn’t a wide difference of opinion on these questions between blacks and whites. Other minority Americans are the least pessimistic.
Why Is There No Starbucks Coffee House in Selma?
March 19, 2015 – 1:57 PM
Starbucks executive Corey duBrowa recently deleted his twitter account, after what he said were abusive comments as a result of his push for a campaign in which his baristas were to engage with customers about race relations.
“I was personally attacked through my Twitter account around midnight last night and the tweets represented a distraction from the respectful conversation we are trying to start around Race Together,” duBrowa said. “I’ll be back on Twitter soon.”
But the whole point of the conversations he promoted, was to get people talking about what is uncomfortable, and controversial. It seems childish to delete his own twitter account over it.
A story from fastcocreate.com showed just what happens when you walk into a Starbucks wanting to engage in a discussion on race. Pretty much nothing. The baristas are young kids, just trying to do their job and get through the day, and are kind of embarrassed to even bring it up. I kind of feel sorry for them.
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/jen-kuznicki/why-there-no-starbucks-coffee-house-selma
Reader says perhaps Starbucks is succeeded with initiating productive dialogue by the people rather than the media
Here’s some fuel for the fire. Does anyone else notice that there is rarely any media coverage about discrimination of any other group that even comes close to the hype provided for the race-baiters that soak up the camera and $$$ today? Pick any “oppressed” group. I’m no historian, but did any of these groups destroy, on a continuous basis, their own communities with riots, fire and other illegal activities? And at the same time have their own media darlings who benefitted as a result. It appears that the groups who experienced such a plight improved themselves and their peers, or are in the process of this. There are already laws on the books. At what point is society no longer to blame and personal responsibility becomes necessary?? This is a genuine question, so looking forward to informative responses rather than personal attacks. I don’t like Starbucks coffee either, but perhaps it succeeded with initiating productive dialogue by the people rather than the media.
Starbucks hit by ‘cascade of negativity’ after ordering staff to talk racism with customers: Vice President forced off Twitter as angry public turns on ‘patronizing’ project
Howard Schultz, boss of Starbucks, told baristas to write ‘RaceTogether’ on cups in an effort to stimulate debate about racism
Twitter users quickly branded the campaign ‘patronizing’ and ‘cringe-inducing’, and subjected executives to a wave of mockery
One user pointed out that no black people featured in publicity photographs for the campaign
Corey duBrowa, a Starbucks PR executive, was forced to delete his Twitter account as he felt ‘overwhelmed by the volume and tenor of the discussion’
By JAKE WALLIS SIMONS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 03:51 EST, 18 March 2015 | UPDATED: 11:07 EST, 18 March 2015
Twitter has ruthlessly mocked Starbucks campaign for the company’s new anti-racism campaign in which baristas talk to customers about race issues while serving their coffee.
One user tweeted, ‘I don’t have time to explain 400 years of oppression to you & still make my train’, while another pointed out, ‘y’all realize there are no coloured hands in the press photos right’.
A third speculated, ‘maybe Starbucks actually wanted to get people of all races & ethnicities to join hands and make fun’.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3000260/Starbucks-PR-fail-Twitter-mockery-causes-coffee-executive-delete-account-customers-say-NOT-want-talk-racism-ordering-coffee.html#ixzz3UouRuuSZ
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